Process for the manufacture of fashioned stockings



Feb. 11, 1930. M. WIELAND v 1,746,846

PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF FASHIONED STOCKINGS Filed Nov. 15-, 1927Fig/l. Fi .2;

Patented Feb. 11, 1930- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MAX WIELAND, OFAUERBACH, NEAR'OHEMNITZ, GERMANY; MAX HUGO HEB-KLOTZ, EXECU'I'OR OF SAIDMAX WIELAND, DECEASED, ASSIGN OR TO A. ROBERT WIELAND,

OF AUERBACH, SAXONY, GERM ANY, A FIRM COMIPOSEDOF AUGUST ROBERT WIE-LAND, META ROSA. PETERS, LOTTE OEHME, AND LEONORE WIELAND v PROCESS FORTHE MANUFACTURE OF FASHIONED STOCKINGS W Appncafipn m nn lean serial N0.23;v,4Q,,.and.in Germany November 26, 1926;

The present invention has for its object the manufacture of a stockingknitted in the" are formed only by widening with a correspondingenlargement of the fabric, and, after the full length of the heel isobtained, a suitable number of meshes is se arated on both sides, thenumber of the wi ened heelmeshes in the lower heel-part being graduallyreduced. A narrowing in the lower portion of the heel will therewithbecome superfluous, whereby an essentially simplified manufacture willresult inasmuch as the direction of movement of the covering needlesconstantly remains the same and tensions in the fabric during themanufacture of the heel-portions are avoided.

A diagrammatic representation of results obtained in following thisprocess appears in the drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents in outline aheel portion knit 1n accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 represents the heel portion shown in Fig. 1 after the stockinghas been separated and its edges connected together in the usual manner.

"pose of narrowing the fabric to the width of fabric necessary for thefoot. The result of said procedure is the shape of heel represented inFig. 1. After the foot has been finished, the stocking is separated andits edges are connected with another in a known manner by sewing andjoining the meshes, as represented in Fig. 2.

For the purpose of obtaining a good shape to the heel, only a part ofthe heel meshes is, during the manufacture, continued outwards afterpassing a certain pointfor instance that indicated by the line w-a, Fig.3,in such a manner that less and less meshes are transferred outwardsafter passing the conveying-line. Thus the fabric is not Widened beyondthe line aa,' Fig. 3, and for the purpose of the formation of a regularfabric-edge one or two edge-meshes are allowed to remain hanging ontheir frame needles, so that the corners broken off, as represented inFig. 3 will result.

Another possibility of construction consists in that the work isgenerally done in quite the same manner as in the example of procedureshown in Fig. 3, but that the heelportions are not more outwardlywidened in their entire width, viz: up to the outermost edge of thefabric, whereas a greater number of edge-meshes are left on theirframe-needles' In this manner so-called small covering-flowers b, b,Fig. 4, will result near the inner remaining mesh-rows or bars, saidflowers being a characteristic feature of the known French heel andimproving the appearance of the heel.

In using the new process it is quite immaterial whether theheel-portions are outwardly widened by one or more needles and whetherthe widening is repeated in-each row of meshes or only after severalrows. Furthermore, it is immaterial whether the heel-portions arereinforced by the insertion of special additional yarns or whether saidreinforcement is effected by the so-called split reinforcement, whetherthe base-thread runs across the entire width of the fabric or whetherthe fabric-piece is formed by several threads which may join or bindeach other in any suitable manner.

-IVhat I claim is:

A process for the manufacture of a stocking knitted in the shape of aleg, the heelportions of which are produced by lateral widening duringthepworking ofthe foot; portion situated between the heel-portions,which consists in that the heel-planes are only formed by outwardlyconveying the meshes to adjacent meshes with a correspondin enlargementof the fabric, by an outward widening, and that after the finishing ofthe full heel-length a suitable number of meshes are separated from bothsides, the number of the widened heel-meshes being gradually decreasedin the lower portion of the heel, one or more edge meshes being left ontheir frame needles for forming a regular fabric edge within the lowerpart of the heel.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signedmy name this 3rd day of November, 1927.

MAX WIELAND.

